Recorded Oct. 18, 2008: Podcast 9.
Wall Street Trumps Hunger; that we see. In light of the recent Wall Street bail outs, Hard News Vegan Pamela Rice thought it fitting to visit the Web site of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. While the world's elite are moving the chess pieces of our lives, what effect is it having on the tens of millions of people across the globe who live on poverty's edge?

Recorded Aug. 11, 2008: Podcast 8.
THE FIRST VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE IN AMERICA, which took place in Greenwich Village, New York City, on May 18, 2008, was a great success. Pamela Rice, Hard News Vegan and organizer of the event gives practical advice for you so you, too, can bring a veggie pride parade to your town or city. She speaks about the importance of (1) having a good Web site containing certain elements, (2) of being in touch with city officials, and (3) of pitfalls you will want to avoid. In addition, she speaks of the importance of bringing in the media and how to get that accomplished.

Recorded Mar. 31, 2008: Podcast 7
In this Podcast Pamela talks about the FIRST VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE IN AMERICA, NYC (May 18, 2008, Greenwich Village, NYC), which she is organizing. She tells all the ways you can get involved, both in big ways and in small, by sponsoring, volunteering, and of course marching in the parade. Here is our chance to come together with other vegetarians to make our lifestyle just a little less invisible, a little more viable, and a little better understood.

Recorded Dec. 21, 2007: Podcast 6
In this Podcast Pamela recounts her particiption in Just Food's Summit on Food, Farms, and Community Health, which took place on December 1, 2007 at the New School in Manhattan, NYC. She recaps her own experience at the conference as well as that of Lisa Lindblom, a vegan animal advocate and friend. The sponsoring group, Just Food, with its sold-out audience, certainly advocates many important causes: organic agriculture, labor justice, local food, food security, agricultural sustainability and humane food. But it does not go out of its way to push for veganism or vegetarianism. Lisa and Pamela both had a big problem with this. You simply cannot have many of these good things without more people eating less meat or, better yet, adopting a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle.

Recorded Nov. 4, 2007: Podcast 5
This Podcast is an on-the-spot account of a great outreach event with the VivaVegie Society. Pamela Rice, Hard News Vegan, and five compatriots set up a to-spec veal crate at Astor Place in New York City. Several activists took turns sitting inside it, making a particularly powerful image for passersby and passing cars. Activists held pro-veg'n signs and passed out information about the veal crate. And when they got a chance, they also distributed "101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian." Several people are interviewed in this podcast. Later, the activists trade accounts of their experiences at the demo over a late lunch.
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Recorded Sept.24, 2007: Podcast 4
This Podcast recounts 2 days in the life of vegan activist Pamela Rice in New York City. Pamela laments the priorities of society, and, in particular, the NYPD, at an Italian street fair. She lambastes today's young vegans who should be out there shoulder to shoulder with other vegan activists. Until we show the numbers, the meat eaters will walk all over us vegans, the planet, and the animals.

Recorded Sept.3, 2007: Podcast 3
With this Podcast, I focus on yet another spinach recall, this time Salmonella is the contaminant. Last year it was E. coli O157:H7. What's going on here? Suddenly, raw fruits and vegetables are one of the most likely food categories to be contaminated with pathogens? And why did produce producers ask to be regulated last year?

Recorded Aug 13, 2007: Podcast 2 continues the formulation process: What can listeners expect to hear here? As promised, click HERE and HERE for links to writings and Podcasts of Gary Francione. Finally, I embark on a discussion about foot and mouth disease, noting that two farms in England have recently had cases. I give a brief history of the horror and horrendous cost of the spring 2001 outbreak of the diseasee, also in England. (Here we go again... It makes me glad I'm a vegan.)